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Publication Abstract from PubMed

NMR Conformational analysis of a hydroxyethylamine peptide isostere developed as an aspartyl protease inhibitor shows that it is a flexible architecture. Cyclization to form pyrrolidines, piperidines or morpholines results in a preorganization of the whole system in solution. The resulting conformation is similar to the conformation of the inhibitor in the active site of BACE-1. This entropic gain results in increased affinity for the enzyme when compared with the acyclic system. For morpholines 27 and 29, the combination of steric and electronic factors is exploited to orient substituents toward S1, S1' and S2' pockets both in the solution and in the bound states. These highly preorganized molecules proved to be the most potent compounds of the series. Additionally, the morpholines, unlike the pyrrolidine and piperidine analogs, have been found to be brain penetrant BACE-1 inhibitors.

Optimization of Hydroxyethylamine Transition State Isosteres as Aspartic Protease Inhibitors by Exploiting Conformational Preferences.,Bueno AB, Agejas J, Broughton HB, Dally R, Durham T, Espinosa JF, Gonzalez R, Hahn PJ, Marcos A, Rodriguez R, Sanz G, Soriano J, Timm DE, Vidal P, Yang HC, McCarthy J J Med Chem. 2017 Oct 31. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01304. PMID:29088532^[3]

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